Category: Azure Media Services

I was at the Global Windows Azure BootCamp in Espoo today, rambling about the coolness of the Microsoft media platform in general and Windows Azure Media Services in particular. The event was hosted at the awesome co-workspaces of AppCampus by Teemu Tapanila and Karl Ots — hats off for organizing the event, it was great fun!

I’m not sure if anyone actually tried them, but I put up some lab exercises on GitHub for playing around with Azure Media Services. If you’re looking for a starting point for working with Azure Media Services, go ahead and take a look. 🙂

So, a few weeks back I was on stage at TechDays 2013 Finland. My topic for the day, titled “The Anatomy of a Cloud Video Service”, was about the Futudent “camera + software + cloud service” solution that I’ve been involved with for quite a while now. I intend to cover the associated technologies in more depth in blog form later, but for now, here’s the video of my presentation.

I spent my hour talking about what the client application does, how we handle video transcoding, what it was like to build the associated video sharing service and all the challenges associated with the entire story.

The talk is in Finnish, so obviously it’s only for a limited audience. Also note that for whatever reason, the video is set to forcibly start at 3:22 and you have to specifically click on “watch the entire video” at the timeline marker in order to get to the first few minutes.